News: BBC Series For Mark Nelson

The BBC has commissioned a new TV series starring comedian Mark Nelson. 

The Scottish stand-up will front the six-part series Bad Influencer, being made for BBC Scotland. In the show he will be joined for each episode by two guests from the comedy world to look through the funniest social media posts relating to a range of topics, "from family and friends to dogs and the Scottish diet."

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News: This Country Actor Michael Sleggs Dies

Actor Michael Sleggs, who played Slugs in BBC comedy This Country has died. The 33-year-old had revealed he had terminal cancer earlier this year. 

Sleggs died last night and tributes have started coming in from friends and fans of the award-winning acclaimed mockumentary series.

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Interview: Roisin Conaty On Series 2 Of GameFace

Roisin Conaty’s award winning GameFace returns for a second series. Conaty stars as Marcella, an aspiring actress with a chaotic life and big dreams. We find her on the brink of yet another driving test and with her acting career at a new, humiliating, low. As her friends and family move on with their lives and relationships, she can’t ignore the sinking feeling she’s being left behind… but with characteristic chutzpah she’s determined to turn her luck around.

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News: First Images And Trailer Released For New Sky Comedy Brassic

The first images and a trailer have been released to promote new Sky comedy Brassic. The series stars Joe Gilgun, Michelle Keegan, Ruth Sheen, Tim Key (pictured looking daft) and Dominic West (pictured looking serious) and will air on Sky One and NOW TV from 22nd August. 

The title comes from the work brassic, which is slang, coming from boracic lint, rhyming with skint.

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News: David Baddiel To Make Holocaust Denial Documentary

Comedian and writer David Baddiel is to make a documentary for BBC Two about Holocaust denial.
 
The Holocaust is one of the most documented, witnessed and written about events in history, so why is Holocaust denial back on the political agenda? What has happened in the 75 years since the liberation of the camps to have so skewed the picture?

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News: London Comic Wins Stand-Up's Biggest Cash Prize

Comedian Mark Maier has won the Petfringe Final, which claims to offer the winner the biggest cash prize in stand-up – £10,001 - a pound more than the Edinburgh Comedy Award.

Organiser Andy Stedman said that this year's competition  in Petworth, Sussex "was probably the best line-up and set of performances I’ve seen in one room on the same night."

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News: Rebecca Humphries Speaks At House Of Commons About Coercive Control

Rebecca Humphries has spoken about coercive control at the House of Commons.

Humphries made headlines last year when she split from comedian Seann Walsh, following pictures in the tabloids of Walsh and his Strictly Come Dancing partner Katya Jones kissing.

News: Roisin Conaty Reveals GameFace Return Date And New Trailer

Roisin Conaty has revealed the launch date of the second series of GameFace. 

Her hit sitcom will return to Channel 4 on July 17 at 10pm.

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News: Red Dwarf Crew Reunite for AA Ad

The stars of sitcom Red Dwarf have reunited for a new advert for the AA.

In the ad, titled Stellar Rescue, which has just started screening, the characters played by Craig Charles, Chris Barrie, Robert Llewellyn and Danny John-Jules are trapped on a planet when their spaceship Starbug breaks down. Luckily the AA App comes in handy and a patrol gets them out of their intergalactic pickle. 

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News: Susan Calman Gets Crafty

Susan Calman is one of the celebrities taking part in a new daytime TV show hosted by Kirstie Allsopp.

In Kirstie’s Celebrity Craft Masters famous faces will take on Kirstie’s challenge to learn a host of new craft skills and let their creativity run wild. Will they embrace embroidery, go potty for pottery or say no way to crochet? Today (Tuesday, July 2) Susan Calman takes on fellow comedian Mark Dolan.

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